San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1887-01-06
NO.. 3.
The Saloons and Printers Ink.

GThe following "crusber" is from
the Gatesville Advance, and is in the
happiest vein of its editor, DR.. Cranfll.
-Ep. FREE PnEss.
Every nun is responsible TO God
for tho influences that he puts in mo-
ton. Indeed it seems to us that
more condemnation will be visited
upon those who make others sin than
upon those who only go astray, but
lend none with them.
The greatest power in the world is
tho press. 1t has supplanted the SER
mon in many instances and has taken
the place of the rostrum. Besides
this 1T has taken the place of books,
so that the people have become great
newspaper readers and indifferent
book readers. No man has upon him
the weight of responsibility that rests
upon the editor of secular paper.
His power has never been gauged.
He is himself scarcely conscious of
his strength in the makeup of our
civilization. In view of this fact it is
most shocking spectacle to see the
journalist join in with the vicious in
the overthrow of the good and the
upbuilding of the bad. In recent
number of the Bastrop Advertiser
occurs the following paragraph:
"Printers' ink will tell, and the en-
terprising Griesenbacb brothers Mt
The Home Saloon, know how to
spread it to advantage. Last week
they inserted Il number of locals in
the Advertiser, scattering u number
of extra copies Of tho paper among
the workmen on the railroad, since
which time their business has in
creased astonishingly, while ut night
there is scarcely standing room IN
the saloon. SO much for pluck, en-
ergy, and printers ink.
In this short notice is found the
key to the entire liquor problem.
Last week they inserted number
of locals" and s.nce that sat night
there is scarcely standing room in
the saloon" Printers lux will tell!
It is telling around old Bastrop, If
we are to credit this notice. 1t is
leading the "workmen on the rail
road" to the saloon and to hell. 1t
is seducing the husband from the
wife that he has before God sworn to
love and respect. 1t is robbiDg the
laborer. whom God said is worthy of
his hire. YES, printers ink will tell.
In the same issue of the Advertiser
in leading position on the local
page, is printed the following graphic
description of the side show of hell
that the paper is selling it's space to:
The Rail Road is coming,
1t will he here soon,
Well accommodate you-you bet
At "rhe Home Saloon"
We will treat you kind,
Both white man and coon;
Good cheer you will find
AT The Home Saloon"
Darkness may force the light
From the sun and moon,
But there coneth no night
IA ''rhe Home Saloon"
No mntter when you appear,
Be it midnight or noon,
Sweet music you hear
At "rne Home Saloon"
You can take yours straight
Or with sugar and spoon,
And il never gets late
At 1.-The Home Saloon"
From noon until midnight
From midnight until noon.
You can always get drinks
At "The Home Saloon"
"There is no night" Mt the saloon.
From noon until midnight, from
midnight till noon" this bosom of
mows it's victims down.
There is 'sweet music music to en-.
trap the workmen, to seduce the hus-
band, TO weave the coil Of damning
habit aronnd the boy Printers ink
will tell. 1t has added, with it's magic
wand, place and power to this in
famous traffic Advertising space has
been sold to help carry on this carni-
val of hell and the editor who sells
his space TO this traffic in human
souls is particeps criminis in all the
crimes of which it is the prolific
source. The vampires do not try to
buy the editorial opinions of the pa
pers. There is too much integrity in
journalism for that But they buy
the advertising space and that binds
the editor with cords OF steel.
No editor dares put in his editorial
columns sentiments that antagonize
what he puts in his advertising col
umns.
Wherever you see liquor advertise
ments in a paper you need not read
its editorials to find out bow itstands
on the liquor question. Its adyer-
tisements have already committed it
Like Demetrius, the silversmith,
they cannot afford to have this liquor
god destroyed, for it is by this that
they get their gain.
Printers ink will tell But woe be
unto that man who makes it tell for
evil Before we would sell our col
umns 10 perpetuate an evil we would
leave the literature Of the world to be
written by other hands. We do not
want our pillow haunted with the
ghosts Of those who have found a
drunkard's grave by reading the col
umns over which VIC hold the power.
Before we have to sell our space to
the publication Of saloon advertise
menfs. God grant as A peaceful death